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Annie and I recently recorded this video of us covering Lyle Lovett's If I Had a Boat. We thought you might enjoy it. We are planning on doing more YouTube covers, so comment below and let me know what other songs you want us to do!

New Podcast

I'm excited to announce that I will be starting a new podcast, called The Myth of Fingerprints. I'll interview musicians and artists from around the world (via Skype) about their stories, and play some of their music.

I'll be launching the podcast in May, so if you know anyone who you'd think would make a great guest, please email me or comment below with suggestions!

A collection of sounds and noises from Jonah and Annie's trip to Vietnam

This is a post of a different nature. I'm trying to write more often here on this blog than I have in the past, so although this is not about my music I hope you'll find it interesting nonetheless.

I went to Vietnam with Annie in March for 10 days. It was my first time in Asia. I began in Singapore for a week-long conference for work (I don't do music full time yet!), and then Annie met me in Singapore and we traveled to Northern Vietnam.

It had been a wild and wonderful few months at Yellow Room Recording with producer (and now good friend) Peter Rodocker. I have so much gratitude for the musicians who made some awesome music for the album!

A while ago, we went out on the town with Mac, art director and the designer of the CD art and book, and Dylan Wilbur, photographer. We went to 10 different locations to take photos for the album art and book that will accompany the album.

This year is the 25th Anniversary of Paul Simon's Graceland album, probably my favorite album of all-time thus far in my life, and I heard for the first time when I was very young, probably before I could walk.

It features 3 originals and 1 cover - a newer song and three songs that I've meant to record for a long time. I've released it as a pay-what-you-will, but please feel free to enter $0.00 when you download it, its my holiday present to you!

I hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday, and that 2012 will be a wonderful year for us all.

It makes us musicians very happy when someone likes our music. It makes us REALLY happy when a music enthusiast who has written thousands of reviews purchases, listens to, and writes a great review of our music! Thanks so much to Lee Armstrong for this great review.

I am in Chicago!Well, not yet. I am currently typing this as I fly thousands of feet above our lovely planet. But I'll be in Chicago for a week visiting the family and friends and generally hanging out. If you are in Chicago you should drop me a line.

I'm going to start a weekly blogging experiment called This Week I... in which I talk about what I've been doing and thinking about this week. I'm starting this in order to get myself to blog more regularly and consistently.

So a few days ago, I was messing around in my "studio" and jammed on this song. I actually came up with the original verse when I was studying in the Dominican Republic, and having no laptop available, I recorded it on my phone.